More than 120-year-old Act discriminating between prisoners, amended in Rajasthan By IANS| Published: 17th March 2021 4:48 am IST By Archana Sharma Jaipur, March 16 : Believe it or not, the 120-year-old Act in which prisoners from backward castes were not allowed to work as cooks in Rajasthan jails’s till January 2021 has finally been amended, said prison officials. This Act, framed 120 years ago during the British regime, discriminated between prisoners on the basis of caste in delegating tasks such as cooking and cleaning in jail. Director-General (DG) Prisons, Rajasthan Rajeev Dasot strongly pitched for this change in January this year and made sure he got the Act amended in February this year.